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Head of Muir

Head of Muir is a village located in the Falkirk council area, Central Scotland, between Denny and Dennyloanhead.

The place

Head of Muir is a village located in the Falkirk council area, Central Scotland, between Denny and Dennyloanhead.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Head of Muir

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rough Castle Fort

    Rough Castle Fort is a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall roughly 2 kilometres south east of Bonnybridge near Tamfourhill in the Falkirk council area, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

    3.4 km · Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in central Scotland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Denny Town House

    Denny Town House is a municipal building in Glasgow Road, Denny, Falkirk, Scotland. The structure is used by Falkirk Council for the provision of local services.

    1.1 km · municipal Building in Scotland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Herbertshire Castle

    Herbertshire Castle was a castle built in the Barony of Herbertshire in the early 15th century, located near Dunipace, Falkirk, central Scotland. It is said once to have been a royal hunting station.

    2.2 km · castle in Falkirk, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Head of Muir

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 34 km · Glasgow (GLA), 36 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 70 km
Stations
Banknock railway station, 3.7 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Head of Muir
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–10
  • Aberdeen → Head of Muir
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £18–25
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Head of Muir
    185 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · £23–30
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Head of Muir

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Head of Muir. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe West Highland Line connects Glasgow with Oban (for ferries to Mull, Coll, Tiree and Colonsay), Fort William and Mallaig (for ferries to Skye and South Uist).
  • Get inThe other Hebrides ferry ports are linked by bus.
  • Get inA77 runs from Stranraer (for Northern Ireland ferries) via Ayr and Kilmarnock to Glasgow.

From Wikivoyage: Central Belt, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-10.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    94 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    120 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    178 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    184 km

If you know how people move in Head of Muir – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Head of Muir

Head of Muir is 27 km from Glasgow, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bonnybridgetown in Falkirk, Scotland, UK1.4 km
  • Dennytown in Falkirk, Scotland, UK1.1 km
  • Dunipacevillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2.3 km
  • Banknockvillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK3.6 km
  • Haggsvillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2.9 km
  • Allandalevillage in Falkirk, Scotland, UK2.5 km